The merging of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers has long been a site of gathering. Whereas historically it has served as a meeting place and trade centre, the rivers today stand in for the symbolic act of gathering with guests from all directions and hosts from Treaty 1 territory. They are also sites of profound ongoing disapora and poverty, racial violence and environmental degradation. These are matters which our communities have organized around for many years.  

Confluence is an exhibition which brings together artists who are active in the city of Winnipeg in 2024,
in synergy with the city’s 150th anniversary, ushering a time to reflect on histories of the city, projection
of future and  understand the present’s needs, priorities, and values of artists and communities
within the city and their relationships to one another and their communities.